Ccoy
Change & Continuity
Over Time Essay
CCOT
Purpose:
• To evaluate your ability to analyze historical changes and continuities that have shaped events, social, political, economic developments in history and ability to gauge your analysis of global processes. • This is really a high-level analysis of history. • This essay question deals specifically with analysis of continuities and changes over time covering at least one of the periods in the course outline. It addresses, for example, technology, trade, culture, migrations, or environment. The continuity and change over time questions require analysis of process and explanation of causation with specific examples.
What you need to be able to do:
Change
- Recognize it as it occurs in history.
- Identify & Understand the causes of change Continuity
-Recognize factors which remain the same throughout an entire period
-Identify & Understand factors which allow this to continue
Changes:
• Must discuss, utilize concrete detail and analyze changes that occurred relevant to the prompt and correctly!
• If the prompt discusses command terms
(social and political) you need to focus on political and social changes.
• If your prompt is more vague, you need to think of aspects to base your analysis
• by the end of the course we will have regional CCOT charts!
Continuities
• The prompt also asks you to address continuities, generally these are patterns or cultural tendencies that remain stagnant for years and years.
• Example: Think of role of women, religions, philosophies or clash/conflict between the social classes.
• You need to have concrete detail to back up your continuity however.
IMPORTANT INFO
• IN order to completely get all credit for
CCOT, you need to address the starting point. In order to analyze changes, you must discuss what it was like before.
However, pay attention to time period.
• Thus, given the prompt, your essay may
require
Over Time Essay
CCOT
Purpose:
• To evaluate your ability to analyze historical changes and continuities that have shaped events, social, political, economic developments in history and ability to gauge your analysis of global processes. • This is really a high-level analysis of history. • This essay question deals specifically with analysis of continuities and changes over time covering at least one of the periods in the course outline. It addresses, for example, technology, trade, culture, migrations, or environment. The continuity and change over time questions require analysis of process and explanation of causation with specific examples.
What you need to be able to do:
Change
- Recognize it as it occurs in history.
- Identify & Understand the causes of change Continuity
-Recognize factors which remain the same throughout an entire period
-Identify & Understand factors which allow this to continue
Changes:
• Must discuss, utilize concrete detail and analyze changes that occurred relevant to the prompt and correctly!
• If the prompt discusses command terms
(social and political) you need to focus on political and social changes.
• If your prompt is more vague, you need to think of aspects to base your analysis
• by the end of the course we will have regional CCOT charts!
Continuities
• The prompt also asks you to address continuities, generally these are patterns or cultural tendencies that remain stagnant for years and years.
• Example: Think of role of women, religions, philosophies or clash/conflict between the social classes.
• You need to have concrete detail to back up your continuity however.
IMPORTANT INFO
• IN order to completely get all credit for
CCOT, you need to address the starting point. In order to analyze changes, you must discuss what it was like before.
However, pay attention to time period.
• Thus, given the prompt, your essay may
require